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Visualizing Data…the beginning of the end
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Last.fm…the final frontier. Well…just the final. Last.fm has a ton of data available from albums and artists to users and events. The messy web that could wind up being created from their API is both exciting and frightening.
Thiiiiiings in Spaaaaaaaaace
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Howdy neighborino! You cannot grow a beard in space. But I have a beard. Then you’re an alien. …….no I’m not.
AK vs. Toxi
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Aaron Koblin has a major interest in using data provided by large numbers of people without them knowing the end goal. As interesting as that might be, I find those pieces the least interesting of his work.
The Grass is Always Greener…when it’s not so windy
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Using Yahoo Weather, I took the wind speed and direction and made it into something a little easier to understand. I made some blades of grass and some wind trails. It’s definitely in progress and needs a bit of work, but I think it’s a good demonstration. There’s one weird glitch where if the number [...]
Mystery Data…dun dun DUN!!!
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So we had a 3.2 MB csv (comma separated values) file and we had to figure out how to use the data in a useful fashion. Turned out it was a map of the world. Looks like it was related to population. Getting the rollover values for each point made things pretty slow. So I [...]
Visualizing Don Maclean – A Happy Accident
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After last weeks sketch for visualizing data, I wanted to try and make things a little more interesting…maybe a little more representative of the lyrics or at least the value of the words. I first decided that I’d take any words with punctuation and turn those into spheres. This worked fairly well. Then I wanted [...]
Lyrics Visualized
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The first programming assignment for Visualizing Data was to use a string and an integer as your driving values for a data visualization, using only black and white. My eccentric love for music made me want to use song lyrics. The first song that came to mind was Memory Machine by The Dismemberment Plan due [...]
Solving a Rubik’s Cube or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Puzzle
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This was probably one of the toughest assignment’s I’ve had so far and it’s only been a week. This confounded me for days and then I decided to stop thinking about it for a few hours. After coming back to it, I think I figured it out. There’s two ways of looking at this: If [...]